I have some disks that were pulled from an unraid server that I want to add to another unraid server for the purpose of transferring data from them.  Is it possible to access that data by putting them in another server or will it want to format the disk?  If it's possible what are the steps?  Is it possible to just add them to the server without adding them into the array (with parity) and still access the data.

 

When I get the data off of them I'm going to reformat them.

 

The server the disks came from was 4.7.  I want to add them to a 5.0 server.

 

Thanks all.

 

dave

 

There are several ways to do this .. I'd do one of these:

 

(1)  Attach the disks to a client PC (e.g. a Windows box); install a Linux IFS so you can read them [the free LinuxReader works well:  http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ]; and then just copy the data to your new server.

 

or

 

(2)  Simply physically add the disks to your new server; then do a "New Config" and include them in the configuration.    This will, of course, invalidate your parity disk until it does a new parity sync ... so be sure you've done a parity check BEFORE you do this to be sure everything's good before you have to run "at risk" while creating the new configuration.

 

for the purpose of transferring data from them ...

 

I gather from this that you don't want to add the actual disks to the server -- so I'd do #1 of the options I listed above.

 

Perfect!  Thanks for all your help Gary.

 

dave

 

..or

3)

install them into the server and mount them manually or with SNAP and copy the data over.

 

..or

3)

install them into the server and mount them manually or with SNAP and copy the data over.

This is the best option.

 

..or

3)

install them into the server and mount them manually or with SNAP and copy the data over.

This is the best option.

 

Copying over Gig-e should be just as fast and may be easier to set up.

Copying over Gig-e should be just as fast and may be easier to set up.

 

Definitely agree.  As long as the network is Gb, the writes are just as fast as they would be with directly connected disks, since Gb is far faster than the write speed of UnRAID.